Untitled

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 398, 23 September 1911, Page 5

There is a general impression that Parliament will rise at the end of October, and it is stated by some who claim to know more than others that the Government will make an effort to get the business over by that time. One "old who can look back over eight Parliaments says that if the session ends before November 9th, it will be the first time within his election.

When in Paris on September 9th. Jack Johnson, interviewed, said: "There is no prospect of anyone ever licking me. I will put in another year polishing off all those who think they have a chance. 1 will then keep my theatrical engagements, and come back here and open a gymnasium, pick half a dozen 'hopes,' and let them contest the title in France, England, America and Australia. It would make it more interesting, perhaps, if I were to buy a big championship belt, and referee the fights myself. At first I thought I would like to settle in England, but I think Paris is more congenial."

A handsome young woman in a filmy silk waist and a hobble skirt accosted ten or a dozen women in the matinee crowds in the vicinity of Pittsburg theatres on July loth (says the New York Wurld), with an apologetic "Pardon, please, but could you button me up? This waist has come open again, and I can't quite reach it." In every case, as the women accosted prepared to render the service, the stranger gushed--"You're so kind; I'll hold your handbag while you do it." She left a trail of weeping women in her wake. She is known to have rifled ten bund bags in two hours. In every case the woman who had buttoned the waist found every penny of cash gone from the hand bag the stranger banded back.